Voice Beta Testing In Second Life… Wanna?
There is a lot of talk going around about Vivox voice services coming to Second Life. Cnet mentioned that a selected few people would be used for the beta test starting the 6th of March.
My question is how to be one of the select few? I begin checking around and not getting any real answers, but I did find a bit of interesting information on the Vivox site. Vivox states they are “giving away a million minutes of free phone calls and group voice chat to the residents of Second Life. Don’t miss your opportunity to experience high-quality voice communications within Second Life.”
Vivox farther states:
To participate, go to any of the Vivox phone booths located within Second Life and follow the directions posted on the Million Minutes billboards to create an account and download Vivox Second Life Phone.
What you need to run Vivox Second Phone and experience in-world communications:
- A computer running the Windows operating system
- A Vivox Second Phone account
- The Vivox Second Phone client running in the background while you are in Second Life
- Speakers and a microphone headset recommended for better quality
- Broadband internet access required
Here is the last listing of slurls to phone booth and microphone locations inside Second Life.
- Vivox in Pulveria
- Electric Sheep
- Illusion Factory
- Jnana Island
- Millions of Us
- Linden Lab campus
- PARIOLI - Virtual Italian Parks
- Intolerable Ginsburg
- SLNN - Second Life News Network
- imagiLEARNING
- EduNation
- National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
Earth System Research Laboratory- Costa del Sol Resort
- The Hawaii Plantation Store
- OneWorld.net
- AFTRS - The Australian Film Television and Radio School
- Boomer Esiason Foundation - CF University
- Chase’s Manhattan
- Sarg’s Slides
- The Phoenicia Center
- Cyrotech
- Saturen Grill
- The Underground Cinema
- The French SLObserver
- Mercury Entertainment Services
- Corecon
- Yogundo Elementary School
- InkPot Coffee Bar
- DreamTai
Of course I can not guarantee that signing up early for an account will gain you the chance to be a beta tester…. but it seems as good a way as any to select a few.
Update 2/27/07 9:23 pm PST
I have found that the beta testing will be taking place only on the beta grid, and will require a separate viewer download. If you’re interested (and serious about) participating in the initial run starting next week, drop Joe Linden an email at 3Dvoice@lindenlab.com.
This update was taken from the official Linden Blog
February 27th, 2007 • 
Weirdharold • 
